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Dane Evans threw a career-high five touchdown passes to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to a stunning 48-31 home win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday afternoon.

For more than two years, research teams across the country — and around the world — have been using human waste to monitor rising and falling SARS-CoV-2 levels. The same sewage surveillance systems can track pathogens from polio to monkeypox. So what's the future of wastewater testing?

Tracking weekly flyer specials, loyalty point programs, and member pricing can all help when it comes to buying groceries amid soaring inflation. But there is another lesser known way to find the best price for what you need to buy: unit pricing. So why isn't it mandatory in Canada?

Brian Boyle, 53, admitted to abusing four teenaged students between June 2002 and November 2015 while working as their teacher.

Burlington city councillors unanimously supported bolstering its coyote response strategy on Wednesday after a string of coyote attacks over the past three weeks.

A new hovercraft service could cut travel time between Toronto and the Niagara Region down to 30 minutes.

Hundreds gathered on Argyle Street in Hamilton for an early Halloween and a parade this week to help a terminally ill five-year-old fulfil his wish to see monsters.

Ontario's police watchdog says there was likely a shootout in the Hamilton Cemetery before police killed the 40-year-old suspect in Monday's gun violence in the Greater Toronto Area that left an officer and another man dead.

The arguments for and against a permanent injunction at a controversial development in Caledonia, also referred to as 1492 Land Back Lane, ended this week. Now lawyers for Foxgate Developments and demonstrator Skyler Williams are waiting for the judge's final decision.

If there was an election for mayor coming up and only ducks could run (waddle?) for office, Lewis Mallard would be a shoo-in.

A stem cell swab testing event is being held at a local Hamilton church as part of a Canada-wide search for a donor match for an Alberta toddler with leukemia.

Hamilton city councillors unanimously passed a new bylaw designed to prevent the mayhem seen at last year's "fake homecoming" event near McMaster University which saw numerous people arrested and a car get flipped over.

The regional coroner says the inquest into the death of Devon Freeman — an Indigenous teenager whose body was found just metres from a group home months after he was reported missing — will begin on Sept. 26.

Two members of the St. Catharines anti-racism advisory committee have resigned, citing city council's "consistent lack of support."

Brantford's chief of police is investigating how his officers could have raided the wrong home while carrying out a drug trafficking investigation.

Here's what mayoral candidates have put out publicly so far to get votes on Oct. 24.

Canadian Individual Slam Poetry champion Eddie Lartey delivers a spoken word performance from CBC Hamilton's office during Supercrawl.

Keris Hope Hill of Six Nations of the Grand River, Ont., makes her acting debut in Rosie. It premiered in front of a sold-out crowd at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Friday and screens again Wednesday.

Ontario will not declare Monday a public holiday for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral next week, Premier Doug Ford's office confirmed Tuesday.

York Boulevard remains open but the Hamilton Cemetery is expected to stay closed Tuesday as Ontario’s police watchdog investigates events that led to the death of a gunman in the cemetery on Monday afternoon, after a police officer and a man were shot dead.

Visual artist Kiera Boult, one of the performers at the 2022 Supercrawl festival, describes her project, Hamilton's My Lady, which explores her complicated relationship with the city.

The developer behind controversial efforts to build a subdivision in Caledonia, Ont., was back in court Monday, trying to get a permanent injunction against demonstrators from Six Nations who have been on the site for over two years.

The falls will glisten royal blue every night during Queen Elizabeth II’s official mourning period until Sept. 19.

A gunman shot and killed a Toronto police officer at close range at a Mississauga, Ont., restaurant Monday afternoon in what police described as an unprovoked "ambush."

There’s little question that money plays a big role in political campaigns. But how much does it cost to win a municipal election? That depends on whether you’re an incumbent or a challenger, says a Hamilton researcher.

Adults in Ontario can begin booking a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster dose on Monday, the province says. Spots opened for everyone as of 8 a.m. ET, though appointments for especially vulnerable people will be prioritized until September 26 before widening to all residents 18 and older.

The first week of college and university in Canada has passed, but thousands of international students were not at orientation or in classrooms because they are still waiting on study permits.

Supercrawl came back in full swing this weekend, for the first time in person since 2019, and Hamilton showed up.

A woman is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit by a car Friday night. According to police, the woman was crossing Mohawk Road East neat East 45th Street on Friday night when a car struck her.

At 11:19 p.m. on Friday, a tweet from GO’s Lakeshore West Train account said, “We have received a report of a person struck by a train west of Exhibition GO." Passengers say they were stuck on that train for hours with no communication from GO Transit.

At the age of 87, Gladys Sibley's biggest regret in life, as she faces her final years, is that she isn't spending this time with people who love her.

With crowds filling James Street North late into Friday evening, Supercrawl is officially back in Hamilton this weekend.

Hamilton police say a 22-year-old man has been arrested after a break-in at a home in the Westdale neighbourhood, in an incident they're investigating as a hate crime.

Nearly 20 years after her attempt to become the first female leader of the federal Liberal party, Sheila Copps has thrown her support behind Andrea Horwath in Horwath's bid to become the first woman elected mayor in Hamilton.

Hamilton police are trying to identify the man they say wrote multiple anti-Semitic messages around the city's core this week.

Hamilton’s Indigenous community is hosting a candlelight vigil Sunday in the wake of mass stabbings in James Smith Cree Nation and nearby Weldon, Sask., that killed 10 people and hurt 18 others.

Supercrawl is back after a three-year break for COVID, and this year's festival is jam packed with live music, art performances, vendors, kids activities and fun.

There are 45 days, or 1,079 hours, until Oct. 24 — the day Hamiltonians cast their ballots and decide who their mayor, councillors and school board trustees will be for the next four years. Here's your one-stop-shop for voting this year.

Indigenous organizations in Manitoba are sending condolences to the Royal Family after the death of Queen Elizabeth on Thursday, but some in the community remain conflicted over the Crown's colonial history of abuses against First Nations, Métis and Inuit people.

Indigenous scholar Allan Downey tells the story of Indigenous ironworkers from the Haudenosaunee community of Kahnawake in Quebec and how they helped build New York’s skyline. Downey calls it a resurgent history, aimed at reviving Indigenous culture, traditions and governance.

Justin Vovk, a PhD candidate in early modern history at McMaster University who specializes in royals history, said mass media made Queen Elizabeth's reign unique and will also impact her funeral.

Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state and the longest-reigning British monarch, has died. She was 96.

The City of Hamilton is alerting downtown drivers, commuters and road users to plan routes around Supercrawl this weekend from Thursday to Monday.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is investigating an early Thursday morning arrest, where a Hamilton police officer fired his gun at an armed suspect.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested after "sexually propositioning high-school aged females" at Aldershot High School, police say.

The Haudenosaunee Development Institute is asking the city of Hamilton to submit an application and pay a $3,000 to $5,000 fee for the group to review all public works projects moving forward. The city says it can't do that, but will consider monitors for dredging Chedoke Creek.

Residents and local ACORN chapters held a rally on Wednesday to launch its Beat the Heat campaign, where the group outlined four demands to the city in order to make summers more bearable for residents as temperatures get higher.

The K-pop, hip-hop girl group BLACKPINK will be performing at Hamilton's First Ontario Centre Nov. 6 and 7 as part of their Born Pink album tour.

A charity under the United Steelworkers union is sending $15,000 in emergency aid to humanitarian efforts in Pakistan as the country continues to deal recover from massive flooding. The union represents ArcelorMittal, CN and other companies.

Four years after CHAR Technologies opened its demonstration pyrolysis plant in London, Ont., it's expanding and moving the operation to the Niagara Region. The facility cooks wood waste in a kiln in an oxygen-free process that allows conversion to a fossil coal replacement and renewable natural gas. "What's really important right now is to stay away from fossil fuels when possible," one researcher says.